Marciana Marina (Livorno), Tuscany. 2017

Designed to complement a summer villa, the garden of Isola d’Elba serves as a rustic and wild counterpoint to the architecture it accompanies, whose stacked cubes and blinding white colour evoke the typical Mediterranean village dropping sheer into the sea. 

Closer to the house, the garden appropriates the rationalist language of the building, such as in the case of the parterre of Westringia that flanks the access path on each side. Further on, the Mediterranean scrub progressively takes over, and in summer it is a pleasure to venture through the holm oak woods on the way to the belvedere or the tennis court, from which it is possible to catch breathtaking views of the Mediterranean sea.